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- From: billg@bony1.bony.com (Bill Gripp)
- Subject: Re: Air whistles (was Scaring away meese)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.063705.18132@bony1.bony.com>
- Organization: LA&W RR
- References: <13NOV92.09714113.0155@VM1.MCGILL.CA> <6km8TB2w165w@1776.COM> <1992Nov15.070123.8912@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 06:37:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov15.070123.8912@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> zephyr@cory.Berkeley.EDU (COIFMAN) writes:
- >In article <6km8TB2w165w@1776.COM> bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
- >>CZ94@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA (CZ94) writes:
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- > At least one disel railway had whistles instead of horns. When absorbed
- >into the Soo Line, all of the locomotives on the Minneapolis Northfield
- >and Southern had air whistles. As the engines were absorbed and
- >repainted, the whistles came off. A couple of these whistles are now in
- >use by the Minnesota Transportation Museum on an NW2 and an SW1200. Oh,
- >btw, the whistles fit the same mounting brackets as the normal air horns.
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- The New Haven FL9's had Nathan Air Whistles. Some of their other
- diesels many have had these too.
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